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by Terri A. Thomas The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California unanimously adopted new guidelines regarding the discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”). The guidelines are tools “designed to promote cooperative e-discovery planning . . . that is tailored and proportionate to…

In what could be a significant opinion for federal class action defendants seeking to limit their e-discovery costs, a court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently held in Boeynaems v. LA Fitness International, LLC, No. 10-2326, No. 11-2644 (E.D.…

Pennsylvania recently adopted amendments to its Rules of Civil Procedure that govern e-discovery practice in the Commonwealth. Although the amendments to Rules 4009 and 4011 (requests for production and the scope of discovery, respectively) use the federal term “electronically stored…

On March 16, 2012, in Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. et al.,[1] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit adopted a conservative view of the types of e-discovery costs recoverable by a prevailing party…

Although deleted data can be recovered – perhaps at significant cost – destroyed data is likely gone forever. Perhaps it is for this reason that a recent federal court was reluctant to apply a strict proportionality test to a preservation dispute.…

Being a party to litigation often means devoting significant amounts of time and resources to complying with an opposing party’s extensive requests for e-discovery. But is e-discovery compliance a sunk cost? Not necessarily. More and more commonly, federal courts have been willing to allow prevailing parties to recover the costs of certain e-discovery compliance efforts. By carefully documenting the processes and costs necessary to produce responsive electronic data, you provide the court with a solid basis for restitution of those costs. In Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp., No. 07-1294, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48847 (W.D. Pa. May 6, 2011), for example, the court reimbursed the successful defendants for over $367,000 in e-discovery costs.

In the eDiscovery context, there are quite a few unusual terms thrown around: “Web 2.0,” “De-Duplicating,” “Non-native data” to name but a few. One concept that has been blogged about for years, but is still relatively confusing is “Cloud Computing.”…

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